Zynga intends to move its mobile franchises to PCs and consoles. For these purposes, the publisher acquired the studio Echtra Games, known for action / RPG Torchlight III.The amount and other details of the transaction were not disclosed.

The analytical company Sensor Tower told how things were with mobile genres in 2020. Hyper-casual games turned out to be the most successful in terms of downloads, but RPG projects got the most money again.

The Sinking City scandal continues. The game was again withdrawn from sale on Steam. It is unknown whether Frogwares studio has anything to do with this, but Valve had to delete this version of the project after receiving a DMCA complaint.Now the link to The Sinking City page on Steam automatically redirects users to the main page of the store.

Consolidation continues in the gaming market. Epic Games became the owner of Tonic Games Group— the parent company of Mediatonic Studio. The latter developed the popular battle royale Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.

Wanted: game designer for monetization at RJ Games, tester at Kefir and 3D animator at Last Level.

Marketing company Vungle has announced a new takeover. It includes the GameRefinery service, specializing in the analysis of mobile games. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Finnish scientists decided to treat depression with video games. They started developing an action game that should seriously weaken the symptoms of the disease. But they warned — the game still won’t replace pills and psychotherapy.

The Ukrainian studio Frogwares commented on the situation around the re-release of The Sinking City on Steam. The developers claim that Nacon has spiraled and modified a copy of the game. At the same time, the publisher believes that the studio, to which she allegedly has already paid over € 10 million, refuses to make contact.

AppFollow, an application monitoring and ASO optimization platform, conducted a study of the Russian top application charts. As a result, the company has identified rating leaders in several major categories of mobile games for iOS and Android.How was the study conducted?

Creating user interfaces is one of the most important tasks in game development. Evgeny Lazebny, designer, developer and director of Tapteek, spoke about this process based on his experience and gave some practical advice.Evgeny Lazebny

Founded by immigrants from Russia, KamaGames has entered into a partnership agreement with the American All Elite Wrestling. Now the portfolio of the developer of social casinos has been replenished with a mobile application in the subject of wrestling.

The British company Chucklefish, which accounts for the development of Starbound and the publication of Stardew Valley, has published a guide on pitching games. It contains tips on how to prepare for the presentation of the project and what publishers pay attention to. We share the main material.

The Sinking City recently returned to Steam and immediately received a lot of negative feedback from players. The Ukrainian studio Frogwares, whose proceedings with the publisher Nacon are continuing, urges users to refuse to purchase. The developers themselves have nothing to do with this version of the game.On February 26, The Sinking City unexpectedly became available for purchase on Steam again.

Last year turned out to be a good one for Doom Eternal. According to a former id Software product manager, in the nine months since the release, the shooter has earned more than $450 million.

Game developers continue to cooperate with Russian stars. This time the companyGarena teamed up with LJ, who dedicated a new clip to the mobile battle royale Free Fire. A special event dedicated to the collaboration has also started in the game itself.

The Chinese studio miHoYo became known around the world after it released Genshin Impact in September last year. In the wake of the success of the game, the developers managed to double the annual revenue compared to 2019.

The streaming service Stadia was an ambitious project of Google. It was predicted that he would be able to “radically change” the gaming industry and oust consoles from the market. Journalist Jason Schreier with reference to his own sources, he told why this did not happen.

Yesterday, the founders of Playrix, the Buchman brothers, gave a big interview to businessman Oleg Tinkov. There they told about the company’s plans, what they think about Nexters entering the stock exchange and how they feel about Zemfira’s clip. We share the main thing from the conversation.

We continue the mini-series of interviews in the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the games market. This time we talked with Tim Repa-Davies, a gaming lawyer from Sheridans.